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Charlotte Wasn't About Gun Control · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start your
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day and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Wednesday morning, first
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day of May. Happy justin Timberlake Day. That's what it should be called
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unofficially, shouldn't it. Let's just embrace it. Star Wars Day's coming up.
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This should just be Timberlake Day. We should be able to I don't
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know the fact that n Sync was almost in the Star Wars prequels, I
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guess almost makes these two kind of go together. I guess. I don't
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know. Did you know that they I guess it films some stuff, but
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they got cut out of. I don't know if it was Phantom Menace or
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maybe Attack of the Clones one of those movies. I think they were supposed
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to show up in is Jedi or something, but it didn't end up panning
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out. And I don't know that it really matters to the rest of us.
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I'm sure it hurt to them. They would have wanted to be in
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it. Why wouldn't you. I would be devastated if I had filmed scenes
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for a Star Wars. Well, you know, most of the Star Wars
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movies. We got some coming up. I just don't know what to think
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about. I want to be excited. I want to be fired up and
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excited about it, but I don't know what. I don't know what those
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are going to be. I don't know how disappointed you would be if they
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end up just being nonsense, just woke nonsense. If that's what it is,
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are we I'll still watch them. Whom A kidding? I'm getting ready
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for May the fourth, because that's what we do in the Carroll household.
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But it's it's Timberlake day. And yes, in that song in sync song,
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he did get suggested by a producer to pronounce the word me as May,
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and the rest is history. Somebody who had a lot of experience producing
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mega hit records told him to do a take of it where you say it's
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gonna be May, and then that just stuck. That became the thing.
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Who knew it would become such a thing. But it is happy Tember late
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day, continuing on a week of just talking about the It doesn't make sense.
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It's a little bit of like we want fairness, we want some things
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to start making some sort of sense, for there to be some sort of
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order. And I guess the news keeps giving us stories that really fall right
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in line with this, this horrible story out of Charlotte with eight officer shot,
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ford dead, trying to serve a warrant on a felon and lengthy criminal
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record for this guy in Charlotte. I've got friends in Charlotte who had themselves,
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have friends who work on the police force there, and obviously this is
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is horrible and it has shaken people there as it would. What turned started
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out is just serving a warrant and it turned into this incredibly destructive shootout,
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and you know, eight people getting shot, eight officers getting shot, but
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the house inside and I guess the person they were looking for maybe was the
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first one shot, and then someone started firing out the windows. It's a
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terrible scene that played out, and it's just another incident of our police officers
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under attack in a world that are in a country at least that has for
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a few years now said that, you know, they're the bad guys.
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Let's be honest. I don't think general society says that, but I do
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think there is a message that's being pushed out that says that the police are
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the bad guys. And it's horrible that that ultimately could lead to something like
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this. I don't know if it played into it or not, but we
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know what we're getting onto the subject of fairness and equality. We know that
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the words of our then president of the United States at the time of January
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sixth, people say, well, they might have thought he wanted them to
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go in there and do bad things in the Capitol based on things that he
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said, they could have taken them to mean that he wanted them to go
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in there and just create absolute lawlessness and lead an insurrection. So we're going
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to try him for that because the things that he says matter, and CNN
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stopped even car They won't even show anything Trump says live anymore. Oh,
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he says lies, and he says things that could cause harm and danger.
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So they want to make sure that people that watch CNN believe that he's dangerous.
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That's one of the ways. Or is it seeing it's MSNBC. I
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don't know if CNN shows his stuff live either. Correction, let me get
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that straight. It's MSNBC. They don't do it. I'm not sure about
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seeing it, but they won't show it. Oh he's dangerous. I think
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if you're watching MSNBC, you've already got an opinion of Trump. I don't
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know that that's really having a huge impact on anything, but they want to
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make sure to reinforce it. They won't even show him speaking live. They
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should probably stop showing Biden speaking live because he'll say the word pause or any
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sorts of thing, start talking about cannibals or whatever he talks about. I
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don't know, get the Easter money on standby in case they got to pull
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him and pull him away from the cameras, just in case if you're going
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to run him live. But the double standard that is violence against police,
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violence in a situation like this, which in Charlotte, I mean, it's
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an unspeakable thing to have this many officers in part of the same police force,
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to be shot and to lose four of them serving a warrant. And
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this has many just talking about what we're talking about right now, how horrible
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this is. However, there are people, including our president, who has
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turned this into a gun control conversation. This is a conversation about guns.
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It's about how I guess the guns are at fault, not the felon that
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they were going to serve. The warrant for I guess assuming now now and
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my understanding is this related to somebody to do with a gun charge, somebody
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who had a gun that wasn't supposed to have a gun. So what sort
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of gun control measures exactly could be enforced in this situation against this person who
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has already proven, Hey, you're not supposed to have a gun. I'm
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gonna have a gun anyway, and we're gonna have guns from other people in
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the house with me, and we don't care what we're being told. We're
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gonna have guns. That's what we're gonna do. So what new laws could
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they put in place that would have somehow prevented this tragedy from happening in Charlotte?
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What exactly are they proposing? See that's where we get into this.
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We start throwing around words like well we need some common sense gun control.
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Well, explain what that means. Tell me exactly what it is that you
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are proposing that would have prevented this horrible tragedy from happening. Because he's already
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proven that he's going to have a gun no matter what. He's gonna have
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a gun no matter what the situation is. So there's no no new laws
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to put in place that are going to change that. The other thing that
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is playing into this as well, and this relates to part of what we've
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been talking about, this lack of trust we have in so many media outlets,
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is we're now I've seen it in a few places, and we're being
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told that I want to get the source on this particular article CBS News where
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it references that the suspect had an AR fifteen style rifle, not that he
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had an AR fifteen, not that this and I don't know that this was
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the person they were serving. The warrant was for possession of a firearm by
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a convicted felon. So thirty nine year old Terry Clark Hughes Junior started shooting
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in it from a window, AR fifteen style rifle, forty caliber handgun,
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additional ammunition for both weapons, and the two people in the house after the
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shooting concluded. And all right, so I'm not sure who they're saying had
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the AR fifteen style rifle, But it's getting to my point is if it's
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not an AR fifteen, don't call it that. This is just somebody carrying
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the water for the left for gun control. It was an AR fifteen style
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rifle. What does that mean exactly? It was a big, scary gun.
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It's a high powered rifle. I saw that in another one a high
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powered rifle. They tend to all be kind of high powered, especially ones
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that do get used for hunting sometimes or ones that are used for protecting a
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farm. Some of these guns get used for things like that, an AR
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fifteen style rifle. So again carrying the water for the left because that's what
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the media does. Also, we need to talk a little bit about the
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protests. In some case is riots, in some cases taking over buildings,
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imprisoning people illegally in buildings. I think there's a janitor in one of these
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buildings at one of these schools that wasn't able to leave. So at what
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point does any of these that have been going on now off and on since
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October and now we're at the end of school. Kids are trying to go
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and finish classes, they're trying to take finals, trying to feel safe at
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school and do what needs to be done. So if we're disrupting school from
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happening, and you're being told that they're going to be kicked out of school
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if they go there, only students allowed on. And I know they've cleared
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some of these campuses out, but we've had people off and on now for
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months screaming, you know, death to America, death to the Jews,
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death to Israel, all these kinds of things, a lot of that paraphrase.
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But when they start screaming death to America, at what point does that
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become some form of insurrection? I mean, can we not call that?
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Is that not more insurrection than getting a guided tour of the Capitol Building by
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a bunch of people that were just told come on in, just don't break
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anything. Not that that was everybody, but that was mostly what was happening.
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That's what the video shows anyway. But when people start screaming death to
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America, is that not a form of insurrection? We do now have some
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Democrat members of Congress that are saying that these protests are out of control and
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that the anti Semitic rhetoric is bad, you think, And it's interesting some
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of them happen to be themselves Jewish, which is interesting also goes back to
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my point I've been trying to make. If you yourself happen to be Jewish
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and you've been voting Democrat, you may want to start thinking things and don't
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take Chuck Schumer, four or five people coming in here and saying, ah,
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this is bad as evidence that this party wants this to stop, or
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that they don't that they're against it. We have a basically a situation where
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protests turn riots turned, you know, taking over chunks of land, taking
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over sections of Seattle or Portland, people taking over federal buildings. Remember when
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they took over that post office, a federal building, and that didn't get
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any play at all as far as being anything out of line in the form
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of even a statewide insurrection, right. I mean, they took over which
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is a federal building that should fall under insurrection period, shoudn't it. But
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it's been allowed to happen, and it's been allowed to happen and encouraged by
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people on the left. They have grown this, They have turned this into
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the monster that it now is. This is something that easily could have been
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discouraged. I don't know that discouraging it. Discouraging it would have made a
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huge difference, but I don't think it would be this sort of I mean,
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this is just the cool thing to do for some They're showing up well,
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we're gonna protest. We don't want to take finals this week. We
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want to show up and take part in the protest. We want to be
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activists in all this. And again back to the point, I want to
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know what's fair when you're gonna call Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis or any number
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of people, any number of people running for president. We could go through
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the whole list of anybody who's a Republican that's run. You want to talk
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about Ted Cruz being called always people with Nazis, Oh my gosh, they're
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Nazis. Is there anything more Nazi than calling for the extermination of Jews.
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I mean, that's where that needs to be where we draw the Nazi line.
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At the very least, you could do some things that are certainly nazi
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esque. But I mean, I think as far as defining qualities, that
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has to be pretty high on the list, right is at the top of
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the list. I mean, if people are and I know you got people
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that are just trying to exercise their right to protest, I get it.
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I think we need to be able to do that as a country. Our
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founders wanted us to be able to do it. I don't think they ever
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imagined protests that had people would have people screaming death to America, or let's
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exterminate an entire group of people from the earth because we don't like their religion,
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or we don't like where they were born or where their ancestors called home.
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I can't imagine that we would have had founders that would have been pro
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that kind of protesting. But you know what if your goal, and I've
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talked about this is like what are they trying to accomplish? So they're trying
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to accomplish as they're trying to keep money from going to Israel. That's what
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they want. They want money to not go from the US to Israel.
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Again, if you're Jewish and you've been voting Democrat, you might want to
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think about changing that. I'm not going to tell you what to do.
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You just might want to think about it. You might want to consider that
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the people you've been voting for have encouraged this kind of behavior to happen in
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the name of the greater good in their view, which is getting rid of
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Donald Trump. That's all they wanted to do, making sure that they had
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control, that they had power. That's what they want. They still want
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it and they're trying to figure out how do we adjust all of this to
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work to our advantage. Because you've got members of the squad, they're all
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in on this. They think these protests are the greatest thing ever. They
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like all of it, they've encouraged it. They want a constant state of
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revolution. That sounds anything like you've ever heard. I don't know if you've
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studied the works of Karl Marx, probably not, you may be familiar with
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them. That's one of the things that Marx talks about is you know,
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this constant state of revolution. And we've heard these words coming from various members
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of the left. They like this constant state of revolt and revolution. I've
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referenced this many times when AOC said, we're not done just because we got
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rid of Trump. We're not done. There's no more brunches on Sundays.
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This is what we do now, and it's what they're doing now right now,
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rolling into about to be summer, trying to get and the other part
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of this that's confusing is they're trying to get finished with school and they're trying
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to get these kids. It's a home in some cases, and it's just
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disruptive and I don't understand any situation where protests are allowed to disrupt the flow
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of traffic. I know we got places that aren't allowing it yet states that
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are stepping up and saying we're not going to allow it. But why has
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it ever been allowed blocking traffic? Why is that okay? It's not it's
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not okay making people feel afraid. If only there was a term for a
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group of people trying to intimidate other people through fear, And I don't know
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what's another word for fear terror, if there was only a word for what
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that activity was called, trying to intimidate people through terror. Just I mean,
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it almost seems like this could be one of those words that you would
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just kind of take a word and then just stick is them on the end
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of it, and then you've got like a whole special word just for this.
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But it's been encouraged. It's been encouraged with what ultimately came down to
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riots in the streets and violence and people getting killed in the name of the
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twenty twenty election. Oh my gosh, someone did something real stupid and hurt
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somebody, So we're going to get out and burn things down, and somebody
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didn't like a police training center being built in the Atlanta area. Oh,
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we got to go burn a police car because that's just a police car.
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That's not violence, because it's just a thing, it's just a police car.
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It's nuts. This is the incur This is what I'm saying, This
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is what people are saying. What are we doing? Why is this activity
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allowed to happen? Why is it continue to allow to Why do we have
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the media carrying the water for the left on guns on an issue that has
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nothing to do with gun control. It has to do with a criminal breaking
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the law, the police doing their job. And I don't know, I
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don't know if you could add any fact, maybe if we're going to say
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that things that Trump said maybe encouraged other people to do things when there was
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no direct connection to it. Can we not make some connection to telling everybody
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that the police are bad, the police are awful, and we have to
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defund them and get rid of them because they're the bad guys. And then
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we have a shootout that involved and this is happening a lot. I guess
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it's down overall right now, certainly doesn't feel like it. After the shooting
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in Charlotte, on Monday. But I guess overall it's down. But I
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mean we're getting to that phase of all. I mean, if we not
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notice the pattern that some of this protesting and riots and things start to kick
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up closer to elections, I mean, it's in every four year sport,
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and it's all every two years. Maybe if we really start to get into
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the if we start to get into the midterms, I don't know, but
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people are just wanting I know, That's what I've been asking. When are
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we going to get some something that makes sense? When are we going to
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decide it's okay to hate this group of people based on race or religion.
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It's okay to hate them, or it's not okay to hate them. I
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don't understand this. Sometimes it's okay, sometimes it's not. We're going to
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just kind of decide whenever it's convenient on which side of this we need to
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be on and figure it out. I'm glad that there are some Democrats speaking
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up against some of the protests. I think that that needs to happen.
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It should be unanimous. This is one of those weird times where they're not
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standing together lockstep, and they should be all of Congress should be This should
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be a universal thing. It's not okay to hate people based on their race,
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hundred O dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break,
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a new you gov poll found that the majority of people believe that marijuana
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is safer than alcohol. Sixty four percent of Americans think that regular alcohol use
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is worse for a person's health than regular marijuana use. Sixty three percent I
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think regular tobacco is more harmful than regular marijuana use. Fifty three percent said
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that both alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than marijuana. Might want to just
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I understand that's kind of the perception that's grown. It's been encouraged, it's
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been encouraged by Hollywood, It's been encouraged by a lot of people who just
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enjoy it. There is some research that you may want to check out concerning
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the relationship of dopamine levels in marijuana. I mean, all that stuff is
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coming out, and you know, maybe people should be looking into that.
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I will say this though, and this is something that as the use of
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it has happened, it seems to have really spread around in our area.
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I'll just say this just a reminder, it's not it's not allowed to drive
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your car under the influence of smoking weed. I was in my car the
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other day and I was driving and I could smell a strong smell of it,
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and I noticed the car in front of me was hanging it out the
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window and blowing the smoke out. That's not okay, that's still driving under
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the influence. You're not allowed to do it. I know people are Wow,
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everybody can do it now, it's legal, not getting arrested for it
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or charged for it. But you know that's certainly something you're not allowed to
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do. All right, let's keep that in mind first and foremost. Let's
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start with that. You don't need to be driving your car under the influence.
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Animal rights groups in the UK are issuing a warning. They say expecting
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parents should not be using painted pigeons in their gender reveal parties. The trend
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is growing in the UK. Couples have been revealing babies gender by releasing a
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pigeon that's either painted pink or blue. The Royal Society for the Prevention of
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Cruelty to Animals this is their version of p do I guess. RSPCA says
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that the fat is both harmful to the birds and can't cause death. One
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pink pigeon that they believe used in a gender reveal party, found dead on
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a man's farm. RSPCA spokes first and said, the majority of us want
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the best for animals and treat them with respect, So intentionally painting of pigeon's
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feathers is unacceptable as it could cause health problems, impair the ability to fly,
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and make them more vulnerable to predators. So you know, they don't
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want you to release in balloons. I know in some parts of the US
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they don't even want you to doing gender at all, because you know,
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the baby's got to grow up and decide, you know, when it's two
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what its gender is, as soon as it can speak. I guess I
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don't know. I don't know how this one. How about this lady she
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was mistaken for being younger. I think most people like that anytime somebody tells
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you, wow, you certainly look younger than you are. But in this
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particular case, a woman named Patricia was mistaken for being one hundred years younger
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than she is. She got at the airport in Chicago to catch a flight,
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and American Airlines had it in their system that she was a one year
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old, when actually she was one hundred and one years old. American Airlines
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thought the birth year of nineteen twenty two was a mistake and that it should
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have been twenty twenty two. So Patricia requires special transport through the airport,
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and the airline did not have it available for her because they assumed she was
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a baby and she would be carried through the airport by one of her parents.
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Once Patricia explained the mistake to the airline personnel, they all had a
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good laugh. The problem has happened before, and in the past, Patricia
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has repeatedly informed Airlines of the mistake. She's hoping it gets fixed before her
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next flight in the fall. She'll be one hundred and two for that flight.
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So yeah, that's I can see where that mistake would happen. Thankfully,
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there's not probably not a lot of one hundred year old people that are
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flying, but the ones that are, maybe they should have something that says,
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you know, I'm one hundred and one. Are you sure? You
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know they can do that? If you're sure, then maybe they could,
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you know, have whatever transport you need at the at the airport. And
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finally, you know, the term tree hugger not always necessarily something people fondly
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like to be called or But a twenty nine year old college student in Auburn
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broke Guinness World record for hugging the most trees in one hour. The Boo
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bakar Thaie hero of Ghana Taihro is pursuing his master's degree in forestry and decided
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to attempt the record, which he did by wrapping his arms around eleven hundred
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and twenty three different trees at Tuskegee National Forest, and he had to be
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careful because any damage calls to a tree would not count. He was officially
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recognized by Guinness as the world record holder, hopes that he is able to
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raise awareness of environmental conservation. That's pretty cool. I like that. My
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wife loves tree. I mean I love trees. My wife really loves trees
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to the point that we have friends that joke about it. And of course
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I set a Guinness World record for hugging people back in two thousand and three.
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The people had to hug back. So one of the differences now,
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I wasn't if I broke anybody's arm, maybe that wouldn't have counted. I
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don't know how that would have worked. Relating it to the tree damaging the
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trees. And when this story happened, friend of mine Elizabeth message and she
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said, you and Jill could do this. This is perfect for the both
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of you. So I don't know, maybe one of our boys could have
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this record because like the perfect combo of me and Jill. I guess that'll
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